When Nancy Malinda Guest was born on 4 December 1836, in Cass, Georgia, United States, her father, Moses Holland Guest, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Minerva Turner, was 20. She married Joshua Alfred Ashmore on 1 September 1853, in Pope, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Valley Township, Pope, Arkansas, United States in 1880 and Blocker, Pittsburg, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. She died on 19 August 1923, in Featherston, Pittsburg, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Russellville, Pittsburg, Oklahoma, United States.
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A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: nickname from Middle English g(h)est ‘guest, visitor’ (from Old Norse gestr, absorbing the cognate Old English giest).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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